Friday, March 01, 2013

One would expect that the Liberals and the usual crowd of Harper haters would try to politicize Professor Flanagan's comments on child porn for partisan reasons but would you expect so called conservatives to do the same?

Well welcome to Alberta where some conservatives in the PC party have done exactly that and it is making them look silly in the process.

First up Justice Minister Jonathan Denis who on the Rutherford Show today, or as the Alberta Government likes to refer to it; "Wildrose radio", had this to say:

"Interesting comments from the Wildrose today, hey". ( Note how Denis changes the topic and instigates the smear) I also think the Wildrose has some explaining to do because you know, if you go back, he has been publicly described as a mentor, trusted confident, tenured close personal friend, guided Miss Smith's entire political career ( reading from talking points or just a great memory for old quotes?); I think this goes to more of the core of the party than she would let on."

There is no way to call this other than what it is; a blatant and calculated attempt to smear an entire political party because of its association to an individual. An utterly ridiculous assertion made even more pathetic because it was made by someone who also has an association with the same individual. Yes it is true, the same person that Denis used for his smear attempt is the same one with which he coauthored an op-ed piece in the Ottawa Citizen with! Hypocrisy thy name is Jonathan Denis.

Since we are on the topic of campaign managers Susan Elliot, the PC campaign chair in the last election and who has a previous history of attacking conservatives, decided to also get into the act by tweeting this smear nonsense:

Typical and expected from this crowd of haters but from conservatives who will be crying next week about how the Wildrose are bottom feeders and are lowering the political discourse in Alberta, not so much.

But that is now how 'conservatives' in Redford's PC party like to operate.

Controversial comments in the last election caused Wildrose to grab defeat from the jaws of victory so it didn't take Wildrose long to cut all ties to Flanagan.

The CBC should do the same or maybe they're more like the BBC.

Flanagan appears to have made similar comments in 2009 so his apology is more of a sorry I got caught comment.

The words reported out of Flanagan's mouth are hardly the fault of the media that reported them and trying to blame the media for some perceived bias, even if true, cannot obscure the fact that Flanagan did make ill-advised and / or false comments. Child pornography is not a victimless crime.

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